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'''Major Warren Hamilton "Warnie" Lewis''' ([[16 June]], [[1895]] – [[9 April]], [[1973]]), also known as '''W.H. Lewis''', was a soldier and historian, and brother of the British writer and academic [[C.S. Lewis]]. Warren Lewis was a supply officer in the British army during and after [[World War I]]. After retiring in 1932 to live with his brother in Oxford, he was one of the founding members of the [[Inklings]]. He wrote on French history, and served as his brother's secretary for the later years of C.S. Lewis's life.
'''Major Warren Hamilton "Warnie" Lewis''' ([[16 June]], [[1895]] – [[9 April]], [[1973]]), also known as '''W.H. Lewis''', was a soldier and historian, and brother of the British writer and academic [[C.S. Lewis]]. Warren Lewis was a supply officer in the British army during and after [[World War I]]. After retiring in [[1932]] to live with his brother in [[Oxford]], he was one of the founding members of the [[Inklings]]. He wrote on French history.


He served as his brother's secretary for the later years of C.S. Lewis's life. In order to protect him from annoying fan phonecalls, he repeatedly answered "Oxford Sewage Disposal Unit" until the caller went away.<ref>{{L|287}}</ref>
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*[[1947]]: ''[[Essays Presented to Charles Williams]]'', pp. 136-145
*[[1947]]: ''[[Essays Presented to Charles Williams]]'', pp. 136-145
**"The Galleys of France"
**"The Galleys of France"
 
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Warren Lewis

Major Warren Hamilton "Warnie" Lewis (16 June, 18959 April, 1973), also known as W.H. Lewis, was a soldier and historian, and brother of the British writer and academic C.S. Lewis. Warren Lewis was a supply officer in the British army during and after World War I. After retiring in 1932 to live with his brother in Oxford, he was one of the founding members of the Inklings. He wrote on French history.


He served as his brother's secretary for the later years of C.S. Lewis's life. In order to protect him from annoying fan phonecalls, he repeatedly answered "Oxford Sewage Disposal Unit" until the caller went away.[1]

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The Inklings
J.R.R. Tolkien · Owen Barfield · J.A.W. Bennett · Lord David Cecil · Nevill Coghill · James Dundas-Grant · Hugo Dyson · Adam Fox · Colin Hardie · Robert Havard · C.S. Lewis · Warren Lewis · Gervase Mathew · R.B. McCallum · C.E. Stevens · Christopher Tolkien · John Wain · Charles Williams · Charles Leslie Wrenn